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notes - Not a ReviewFormat: I have all 3! Audible, Kindle, Paperback.
Status: PAUSED
First attempt Sep 2025 Audible.
Love Stephen Fry's narration, and all very interesting but felt there was constantly too much going on and too much to remember to eithe ...more "
“Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things - naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible to really grasp ever at all. It is only later, in solitude, in memory that the realization dawns: when the ashes are cold; when the mourners have departed; when one looks around and finds oneself - quite to one's surprise - in an entirely different world.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?” “To live,” said Camilla. “To live forever,”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“One likes to think there's something in it, that old platitude amor vincit omnia. But if I've learned one thing in my short sad life, it is that that particular platitude is a lie. Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“rain stinging the windows”
― The Scapegoat
― The Scapegoat
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